Session Focus: Insights and Practical Guidance on Creating a Data-Driven Culture

In today's data-rich environment, HR leaders must be equipped to leverage people analytics to drive strategic talent decisions. This interactive session explored practical strategies for fostering a data-driven culture within HR and across the organization.

Key Takeaways:

1. Define the specific business problem and desired outcomes you want to achieve with any leadership development program upfront with stakeholders. Align on measurable goals.

2. Leverage existing organizational KPIs and people analytics data (retention, engagement, promotions, etc.) to measure the impact of leadership programs, even if not directly correlated. As one participant shared: "When we do HR metrics and measurement, if we can use the organization's existing KPIs/OKRs...it's a lot of times hard to have direct correlations - a line of sight from somebody went to this class and the KPI moved - but if we can be influencing those and monitoring them because that's what the Business Leaders are using, that is more impactful."

3. Foster a data-driven culture in HR by celebrating examples of using data to solve problems and make decisions. Find creative, low-cost ways to reward this behavior.

Through real-world case studies, hands-on activities, and peer sharing, participants gained actionable insights to enhance their data fluency capabilities as strategic HR business partners. By aligning leadership development initiatives to measurable business outcomes and leveraging available people data, HR can drive greater impact and become a more data-driven function.